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Topic: Rock bottom (Read 267 times)

Have you ever felt so utterly overwhelmed, with relentless anxiety and panic that the next instant it will kill you? Totally overwhelm you? Beyond terror? I find if I stay with this feeling rather than try and get rid of it, and survive, I come out stronger.Very very hard to do

If you simply give in to anxiety and the feelings it brings it will simply pass. May a time I felt bad. I just lay down in bed and said ' whatever will be, will be '. What happened? Nothing at all. I fell asleep. To be able to give into it is a good skill to learn.

Yes, exactly what Cuchculan said. I've been seeing a therapist for a few weeks now for my panic attacks that just started happening a couple months ago, and she's been telling me the exact same thing – to simply give in and let the anxiety pass. It's really hard, in fact, I'm still struggling with it. My first instinct is to try and fight a panic attack off, because my fear is just too much. I feel like I'm really going to die, and that fighting it is my only option. But I always end up falling asleep and waking up the next morning, and my doctors say that I'm healthy. I've found that my anxiety is a lot less intense and easier to manage when I just tell myself similar things to what Cuchculan says: "whatever will be, will be".

I completely agree! Over the years I have found that when I give into the fear it only makes the next panic attack worse. When I choose to accept an attack for what it is and just tell myself that "it is what it is", I find that I'm more capable of handling the next one.